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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 02:02pm PT
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I'd read that it was missing all that fur from getting scorched in the hot pools. Not mauled. Got away clean. Still a pretty badass photo.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 02:03pm PT
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PS - This thread demands visual aid
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Swimming in LEB tears.
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Oct 28, 2010 - 02:15pm PT
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Holy crap that's awesome.
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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Oct 28, 2010 - 02:52pm PT
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hope that was taken w/ a zoom lens!
=)
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delendaest
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 03:39pm PT
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I'm guessing it didn't end well for the bison?
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murcy
climber
sanfrancisco
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Oct 28, 2010 - 05:15pm PT
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Stupid animals on the wrong side of the road.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 06:08pm PT
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delendaest - As I said above, the bison was reported to have gotten away completely unharmed. Looks to me like this bear is just dreaming, anyway. I know brown bears are really fast on a dead sprint, but he'll never close this gap before running out of gas.
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Lithuanian
Trad climber
Reno
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Oct 28, 2010 - 06:15pm PT
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Who is chasing who? Looks to me that bear is just having a jogging session.
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
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That doesn't look "unharmed".
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delendaest
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 06:50pm PT
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Thanks for the follow-up. That poor bison, looks horribly painful.
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Oct 28, 2010 - 06:53pm PT
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awesome.
the bison's wounds dont look like they are from a hot tub, but who knows...
I would imagine if he were a full grown healthy bison he may even be able to do some damage of his own to the bear...
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Oct 28, 2010 - 07:31pm PT
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Stupid animals on the wrong side of the road.
They're just passing, but illegally - just look at the solid yellow! The ranger took the picture to justify the ticket he gave both creatures.
Hell, I bet they were speeding too...
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Gene
Social climber
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Oct 28, 2010 - 07:43pm PT
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My daughter says that there is nothing worse than getting interupted by a grizzly while shaving one's legs.
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Steve Swanke
climber
Pray, MT
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Oct 28, 2010 - 09:01pm PT
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In Yellowstone, most often the wolves will do the killing of the bison, and the Grizz will then do the scavenging.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 28, 2010 - 09:21pm PT
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Gene compares his daughter to a bison...
Anyway, probably both bison and grizzly were tased.
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Gene
Social climber
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Oct 28, 2010 - 09:34pm PT
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Gene compares his daughter to a bison...
I'll stipulate that she's a beast. However, she competes for the Fordham Rams. Knott sure I like that much either.
g
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edejom
Boulder climber
Butte, America
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Oct 30, 2010 - 12:40am PT
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The full story--with the outcome:
http://www.ktvq.com/news/the-bison-got-away/
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - The man responsible for snapping the dramatic photographs of a bison being chased by a grizzly bear has surfaced, providing Q2 with 14 more pictures and the end to the tale.
Alex Wypyszinski had just dropped off his wife at work and had a few hours to kill one morning last April.
Wypyszinski says he likes to spend his free time in the morning snapping photos of wildlife in the park.
Of course, he usually has to search the animals out.
NEW PHOTOS BELOW
It all started when he was driving in the Fountain Flats area, located between the Madison Junction and Old Faithful, when he heard an unusual sound.
But Wypyszinski says any noise is unusual on that particular highway at 7am.
"I thought it was a horse and carriage," said Wypyszinski. "That was the kind of noise that I heard."
By the time he turned around, the two fuzzy brown images were racing quickly toward him.
Wypyszinski pulled out his camera quickly, thinking he was going to catch two moose racing down the highway.
He quickly learned he was mistaken.
"I thought I was having a hallucination or something," said Wypyszinski. "I couldn't believe what that buffalo looked like."
It was a bison, badly burned from an encounter with one of the numerous hot spots in Yellowstone National Park.
The sight of such an injured bison alone is rare, but what Wypyszinski saw next was once in a lifetime.
"Never, ever, ever," said Wypyszinski. "I've seen plenty of bear, and more buffalo. But I've never seen anything like that before."
A grizzly was chasing the buffalo (which was practically cooked already) and gaining quickly.
Wypyszinski stopped his car on the desolate highway and took out his camera.
"I stood along the car as long as I thought it was safe."
The two beasts passed the man by without paying any notice.
The result: these 14 hair-raising pictures.
We pick our tale up where the photos end.
Wypiszinski says once in the safety of the woods the bison out maneuvered the grizzly, escaping to live exactly one more day.
Park rangers had to put the bison down due to the injuries it sustained.
Wypiszinski said the whole event was over just as quickly as it happened.
Just another day in Yellowstone National Park.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 30, 2010 - 12:53am PT
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There's no recovering from that mauling.....
Kinda like watching the Giants kick the Shite outta the Strangers
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Oct 30, 2010 - 02:39am PT
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that same bear was caught doing the Dirty Sanchez with josh hayward,
hey, what is up with the Let Tim Smoke Giants Cannabis shirt?
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